The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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